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I got a parking ticket that was totally not warranted. I sent a compalint letter to City Hall, along with a letter to the Parking Enforcement center of my city, with the ticket back telling them I’m not paying for it. Here’s the letter I sent to City Hall. I can’t believe these jerks (the city names and addresses have been taken out for security purposes).

2/5/09

Dear City of ********* City Hall,

I sent the below letter to the City of ********* Parking Enforcement in ****** today, but wanted to forward it to you to complain about the parking situation as well.

I parked in one parking space at *** E. 3rd Ave in *********. My ticket says my car was marked at 9:35am, which is probably true. I find it funny that I received a parking ticket when I left my space at 11am and it had NO Parking ticket on it when I left. I went to the post office, came back at 11:30am, parked in the same spot I was in before, and then left again at 12:10pm. When I went to my car at Noon, I had a parking ticket on my car which was given at 11:44am.

It isn’t fair that I have a parking ticket stating that I went over the time limit of 2 hours when I was only parked there for barely 20 minutes! I am not paying this ticket. Granted, I have gone over the limit multiple times but have always paid my parking tickets, and this time I legitimately do not deserve a ticket. This has happened before at my work (located at *** E 3rd Ave) to other people and it is it not right. I am not paying this ticket, it is enclosed in the envelope with this letter.

The parking time limit around this block should be changed. We do not have walk-in customers that would need to park near our buildings, so these 2 hour parking spaces should be left for employees to park in. We all have to either move our cars every two hours which does not make for a productive work day, or park 3 blocks away in residential areas, or in church parking lots which is also not right since we aren’t using the parking lot for what it’s intended for. Employees of businesses that have 2 hour parking signs should be issued passes that allow us to park in the 2 hour parking and not get ticked. We are the only ones that use these spaces!

Please send me confirmation that my ticket has been written off and is not due to me since I did not go over the parking limit. The person that marks the tires should double check that there’s still a mark on the tire before a parking ticket is issued. Just because I parked in the same space more than once in a day does not mean I was there for over two hours. I was gone for over 30 minutes and drove all over *********, so I know the white tire mark rubbed off and was not there when the ticket was issued to me. The city of ********* is ridiculous with its’ downtown parking rules and the people that it hires to do the enforcing must be blind.

Thanks for your time

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